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or sand could bo removed from tbs wall by circulating water or by moans of an air lift pump. Probably it would bs cheaper, however, to seal the well with clay and a cement plug and to drill a new well than to try to repair the well. It is believed that the -water-logging of the ground east of the group of wells W03. 19 to 23 is caused by irrigation from these walls and is not due to underground leakage from them. The surface flow from this group of wells amounts to at least 450 gallons a minute continuously. Only a small percentage of the total number of artesian wells in the valley wore tested with the current meter. It is believed, however, that the underground leakage from wells is very small, except from a few wells that are poorly constructed or improperly cased. Waste of artesian water. It has been reported by Floyd Francis, well driller, that the first flowing artesian wall in the Las Vegas basin was drilled in th NW| of the NEj- of Section 21, T. 20S, R. 613 during the year 1907. Since that time wells hays been drilled from time to time until in 1938 there were probably between 200 and 300 artesian wells. For the most part, if water from a well has not caused any local inconvenience it has been allo.;ed to flow full force year after year Many wells have flowed unchecked since the day they were drilled.
